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Labour Party
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La·bour Par·ty
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a major left-of-center British party that arose from the trade union movement at the end of the 19th century.
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LABOUR: WE ARE IN CRISIS Think tank warns Blair is an electoral liability and must go Treasury minister admits: it's getting harder to govern Union leaders urges recognition of party members' deep concerns
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 6/18/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...disillusioned and ignored Labour voters would turn to David Cameron's rebranded party. In a special one-day...clothing" who had stolen Labour's social reform language. Hazel Blears, the new Labour Party chairman, and an unquestioning...
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Labour shrugs off poll shock
Newspaper article from: The Press; 9/5/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...voters still prefer a deal with Labour, with 52% wanting a centre...preference for either National or Labour on Wednesday, as his party continues to plunge in the...Greens polling 6%, the Maori Party 2%, and ACT and United Future...wanting -- A2 Back to two parties? -- A13
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Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-40. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Crisis: Clement Attlee and the a Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-40. New...asserts that during the 1930s the Labour party was more united and that it provided...rearmament. Attlee's 1937 book, The Labour Party in Perspective, is occasionally...
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Labour and the NDP. (Labour Report).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...ocurring within the Canadian labour movement about the relationship...embrace a more left-wing party they ask. The counter...the other capitalist parties. The delegates to the...s social-democratic party. The stage for this...maintain the link to the Labour Party after Margaret ...
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Labour's panic attack
Newspaper article from: The Press; 9/7/2006; 700+ words
; Labour's cynical attacks...more guilty than other parties of using parliamentary...shown not only that Labour's support is slipping...s belief that the party should pay back campaign...not be an excuse for Labour to call even louder for full state funding of parties. The present row ...
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Labour Party throws out rebel Galloway
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 10/23/2003; 700+ words
; ...central London he said: "The Labour Party will rue the day they took this...National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to the National Constitutional...The chairman of his constituency Labour party (CLP), Mark Craig, said he...
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Labour tacticians pile on poll agony
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 6/14/2004; 700+ words
; ...weeks ago at the launch of Labour's local election campaign...Michael Howard in a series of party political broadcasts not featuring...accepting that the Conservat-ive Party leader, complete with dec...issues further, the smaller parties, such as the Greens and of course the UK Independence ...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Labour reeling after heartland vote stays home; Ex-Army Major scrapes in as 14,000 majority falls to 700 in by-election.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/23/2000; 700+ words
; ...believes it would seize 24 Labour seats in Scotland, including...between the SNP and New Labour. We are on the way up...and Labour are the only parties in contention now in...the SNP and the Labour party also developed last night...use of campaign funds. Parties are not ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Labour's Last Chance?(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/25/1994; 700+ words
; ...such as health and education. Labour cannot count on a big boost...Kinnock was a vote-winner for Labour at the last election: although...Liberal Democrats who switched to Labour. Labour cannot grab a quick...Tories. If, in 1992, the two parties had stood down in Tory seats...from being seen ...
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Labour MSPs warned to toe the line over Dungavel
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 9/10/2003; ; 700+ words
; LABOUR leaders are confident of seeing off a party rebellion that had threatened...Lanarkshire. The Scottish Labour leadership has consistently...reserved issues. The party MSPs were meeting last...SNP motion, leaving Labour needing the support of...
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labour
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...during the second stage of labour, birth can be hastened by...contribution to the care of women in labour was of still greater significance. At a famous dinner party in Edinburgh in 1847 he proved...chloroform as an analgesic during labour met vigorous opposition, backed...chloroform during one of ...
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Labour Party
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Labour Party. Labour has been the principal progressive alternative to the Conservative...such as Snowden and Thomas ) caused lasting bitterness within the Labour Party. After the disastrous 1931 election (which reduced Labour from 288...
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Labour party
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Labour party British political party, one of the two dominant parties in Great Britain since World War I. Origins The Labour party was founded in 1900 after several generations of preparatory trade union politics made possible by the Reform Bills...
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Labour Party (Britain)
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...transformed the party after Labour ’ s disastrous...increasingly left-wing party that was becoming unpopular...In the early 1980s the Labour Party was organized into local constituency Labour parties, which were usually...usually dominated the local parties, and ...
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labour-market
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...theory views exchanges in the labour-market as voluntary, and engaged in because, for each party, the results of the exchange...than their other options. The labour-market is a competitive market...and vice versa. The supply of labour from existing and potential...
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